tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614896838081033202018-03-06T02:44:31.348-08:00World of Anomalyadminnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-67118234533447266582007-09-27T15:12:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:36.888-08:00Snake SnifferLiu Lang inserts a snake into his nostril and releases it out of his mouth on board a cruise liner berthed in Singapore. Born in Sichuan, China, Liu Lang has spent many years of hard work to master a set of extraordinary skills, which include lifting a pail of water with his eyeballs; swallowing steel bearings and expelling them from the ears, nose, eyes and mouth; and swallowing light bulbs.adminnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-13160680728050276382007-09-13T08:26:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:37.049-08:00Fish Piercer It might seem strange to pierce your cheek with a marlin to celebrate a Vegetarian Festival, but this devotee took to the streets of Phuket along with thousands of other worshippers and did just that in the hope of being rewarded with good health and prosperity. The annual Thai festival, which takes place on 2-10 October to worship Chinese gods, has been going for more than 10 years, but a adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-60244018450189002372007-09-13T08:25:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:37.329-08:00Giraffe WomanPaduang tribeswomen from Northern Thailand used to be called 'giraffe women' by jeering travellers.adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-76311668478777427182007-09-13T08:23:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:37.488-08:00Lizard Man Eric Sprague, 28, speaks with a surgically forked tongue, his forehead is ridged with Teflon implants, his teeth are filed into points and his skin is covered with tattooed green scales. A decade ago, the philosophy student decided he wanted to become a lizard. He is on leave from his PhD programme at the University of Albany, New York State, and is touring with the wonderful Jim Rose Circus adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-43817371115843657942007-09-12T13:53:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:37.610-08:00Is the Brain Really Necessary?Is the Brain Really Necessary? (Or What and Where Is Consciousness) This was the question asked by British neurologist John Lorber when he addressed a conference of pediatricians in 1980. Such a frivolous sounding question was sparked by case studies Lorber had been involved in since the mid sixties. The case studies involve victims of anadminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-78013237982518183612007-09-12T13:51:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:37.848-08:00Kaspar HauserA strange boy was found in Nürnberg, Germany on Whit Monday of 1828. He was about 16 years old and wore the rough clothes of a peasant; people who talked to him thought him to be either drunk or dumb. He carried a letter to the captain of the 4. squadron of the 6. cavalry regiment. A shoemaker took the boy to the captain's house, where the boy repeatedly said, ``Ein Reiter will ich werden,adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-1362607798578790912007-09-12T08:51:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:37.998-08:00Giant PigtailHu Seng La, a 77-year-old sorcerer from the Hmong hill tribe in northern Thailand, shows off his 17ft (5m) hair, which he last cut 55 years ago. The world's longest pigtail is washed every December to ensure good luck. This involves his seven children, gallons of water and at least 10 bottles of shampoo.A museum in Pattaya has presented him with a certificate giving him the title of the man with adminnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-2675977554693750522007-09-10T01:29:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:38.426-08:00Mr MagnetLiew Thow Lin, 70, from Gunung Rapat in Malaysia, known as Mr Magnet, claims to have pulled a car for 70 yards (64m) using a chain hooked to an iron plate place on his stomach, and is said to be able to carry weights of up to 66lb (30kg) on his chest including bricks stacked on metal irons. His sons and grandchildren are said to share his wild talent. Researchers at the Technological University adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-33334038267167112062007-09-10T01:25:00.001-07:002008-12-10T09:58:38.536-08:00Long NailsLauretta Adams, 43, from Dallas, Texas, had her fingernails cut in October 1997, ending her bid to have the longest in the world. She had been growing them for 24 years. One was 35in (89cm) long and their combined length was 12ft 6in (381cm). She had some way to go to beat the record of 18ft 10ins (574cm) held by a man in India.adminnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-72776099876109343602007-09-10T01:21:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:39.014-08:00CatmanAfter 20 years and �100,000, ex-geek Dennis Smith, 43, is getting closer to his goal of looking like a tiger. Smith is tattooed with orange and black tiger stripes, his teeth and nails are filed to points, he has surgically implanted latex whiskers. and his lips have been altered into a permanent snarl.Green contact lenses and an orange mane have replaced the specs and short-back-and-sides. The adminnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-17462711264712856762007-09-10T01:18:00.001-07:002008-12-10T09:58:39.212-08:00Shortest ManThe Shortest Man Gul Mohammed, who was the shortest man in the world at 22.5in (57cm), died at the age of 40 in 1997. He was a familiar figure in the fetid alleys of old Delhi, dodging the bullock carts, rickshaws and crowds who were for ever treading on him. He felt at home among the beggars, eunuchs and saddhus of this largely Muslim quarter of town.He was to short to leap across the open adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861489683808103320.post-82130988567031623722007-09-10T01:11:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:58:39.446-08:00Leopard ManTom Leppard, known as the Leopard Man of Skye, lives in his "cave" built on the foundations of a ruined croft in a remote part of Skye, where he has lived as a hermit for the last 16 years. It is two-and-a-half hour's walk from Kyleakin, the nearest settlement. The ex-color sergeant in the Rhodesia Regiment, now aged 64, was originally surnamed Woolridge.He was tattooed 16 years ago from head to adminnoreply@blogger.com4